Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even after setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the device drivers as modules

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so it will silently

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Am 10.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Michael Mol: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hm. That sounds like your tz (-0500) is being applied twice. Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in sync afterwards. You can start ntp-client on a running system but it

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 21:59, schrieb Michael Mol: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jarry
On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise, every couple hours, you'd have your cron'd ntpddate jumping the clock around. I've had apps get stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in sync

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:59:45 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Servers with long uptimes should use ntpd, especially if it's apps timestamp data. Laptops and desktops should instead use ntpdate every one or few hours, that is more suitable for those machines (usually they only

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.01.2012 22:42, schrieb Jarry: On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise, every couple hours, you'd have your cron'd ntpddate jumping the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it in

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:42:07 +0100 On 10-Jan-12 22:18, Florian Philipp wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to get the clock set correctly on bootup with ntpdate, and then have ntpd keep things in line moving forward? Otherwise

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even after setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the device drivers as modules and trying again to see if I can remove this error. I suspect it is the

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: ls -d /dev/rt* This is mine: root@fireball / # ls -dl /dev/rt* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 1 15:39 /dev/rtc - rtc0 crw--- 1 root root 254, 0 Jan 1 15:39 /dev/rtc0 root@fireball / # Mine links rtc to rtc0 which should work if the OP have the same. Dale :-)

[gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with ntpd crashing. My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it should. There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep time, or dmesg | grep ntp, but /etc/init.d/ntpd status tells me that ntpd has crashed. Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-09 Thread W.Kenworthy
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:25:39 -0500 Hi, Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with ntpd crashing. My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it should. There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep